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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2013
Hexagon Technology Center Gmbh, Heerbrugg, CH;
Hexagon Metrology Gmbh, Wetzlar, DE;
HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH, Heerbrugg, CH;
HEXAGON METROLOGY GMBH, Wetzlar, DE;
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention relate to a coordinate measuring method for detecting an object surface by means of a coordinate measuring machine, comprising a measuring head for accommodating a sensor, a guiding unit for producing a relative movement of the measuring head in relation to the object surface in at least one direction, an optical sensor for detecting the object surface, and a control unit, the object surface being optically detected by the optical sensor during the coordinate measuring method, and a data set representing a surface profile in an object profile domain being generated. The data set is filtered by simulating contact of the surface profile represented by the data set with a virtual tactile sensor, and a tactile data set is derived from the simulated contact such that the tactile data set represents a virtual tactile surface profile in a virtual sensor domain.